And now to Ogaga Ifowodo. Lawyer, poet, diminutive scourge of dictators? Ifowodo was arrested and imprisoned (with Akin Adesokan, also on this website) by Sani Abacha for his civil rights activism which started in his student days at the university. Among other things, he is a fellow of the Heinrich Boll Foundation, Honorary Fellow in Writing of the University of Iowa, honorary member of the PEN Centres in Germany, Canada and the US (with the last naming him the 1998 recipient of The Barbara Goldsmith Freedom-to-Write Award) and the first recipient of the Free Word Award of Poets of All Nations based in the Netherlands. He is the author of Homeland (German-English), Homeland and other Poems (winner, Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize) and Madiba (awaiting publication). Ogaga has had articles and poems published in newspapers, journals and anthologies around the world. He is currently in the US to advance work on his prison memoirs and later in the year begin the MFA program in creative writing at Cornell.